Work phones went down this morning...

Yep, Our phones went down. So I call the phone company's tech line to see what was the matter. Come to find that the number I dialed is not in service. Hmm, I thought. Odd, So I checked the number to make sure I was dialing it correctly, and I was. I checked online for a Tech line number for TelePacific Comm. and its the same number. Hmm.. So I call the Sales number they have listed for them, Same issue, Very Strange. I come to find out that not only Did Our phones here go down but so did a few others in the Inland Empire and Orange County. So I sit and wait for TelePacific to get their stuff up and working. I've looked online for News about this, but I have found nothing on it.

UPDATE: 12:01 Pm
Phones work again. I'm curious as to what happened at the phone company.

YEESSS... TUBE-STRIKE!!!

Penny Arcade Card Game

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Have a little Test going on today...

I got a audio file called MysonisaHeterosexual!.mp3. Some funny shit. I sent it to one of the co-workers here, In which I know he will past it on and show other people, thus somehow making back to me. Normally when I have done this in the past it will come back to me. Now, I don't pass on stuff very often. So, Im gonna see how long it takes to reach me or for someone to stop me to listen to it. Sometimes it even comes back to me and you can see in the LOOONNNGG list of Forwards my name in there as the original sender.

FireFox 1.5 Release Candidate 1, Now Available

I've Updated, Have you?

This is the first release candidate of our next generation Firefox browser, to be released later this year, and it is being made available to our developer and testing community for compatibility testing and to solicit feedback.

Download Release Candidate
Firefox 1.5 RC 1 for Windows, English (5.0MB)
Other Systems and Languages

Note: This is not the final release of our Web browser, it has been made available for testing purposes only, with no end-user support. If that sounds scary, you'd probably be better off with the latest version of Firefox 1.0.

Ok.. Got photos uploaded...

Yea, Got the photos from Disneyland uploaded on to the server. But I first must mention the following.

Where to eat before we go into disneyland. We get to Disneyland early, about 6pm, We can not go in until 9pm. So we have the dilema of "Where to Eat?". As we walk down Downtown Disney, We spot a Pizzaeria, Karen asks the Kids, "Hey Pizza!, wanna go there?".. Kids response "No, No lets go somewhere else." So we pass the Pizzeria and continue on the quest for a place to grab a bite to eat. We come too a fork in the road and a choice of these two resturants: The House of Blues or A Mexican Cantina (Don't remember the name, also noticed its not listed in the Downtown Disney Directory). So we choose The House of Blues, mainly because we havent been and the kids wanted to. Man.. Let me tell ya, the Food Sucked, The Service Sucked and the Prices were high for what you got. The Kids ordered Mac 'n Cheese, Yes, Mac 'n Cheese. Well, the food came fast. DJ's exact words about the Mac 'n Cheese "If they ask about the food, Im gonna say Your Mac 'n Cheese Sucks. It doesn't even taste like Mac 'n Cheese, there's not cheese about it.", My response "Well, thats what you get for ordering that here, next time you'll know."

So, the only thing left for that place is the music, but being the food and service sucked ass, Well more than ass, it was just really sad. I doubt we will return.

As for Disneyland though! it was a great night. I'll Post photos in a few.

Pluto has Two More satellites (AKA Moons)!

Before Pluto was only known to have 1 satellite, But now Scientists add Two more, that are much further Charon (Pluto's 1st known moon). The two new Satellites orbit about 27,000 miles from pluto, which is twice as far as Charon and they are 5 times dimmer than Charon. So its understandable why they werent seen. The moons were found using the Hubble Space Telescope.

Read More about it here [ Space.com ]

View a Short and Two Long Exposures [ View Images ]

Argh...

Have a look at the New Layout for this blog. That is still Very Much in progress.. Lots of fine tuning to be done. But once it is, I'll update the new layout to here. Comments for the new layout are welcomed. [ Click Me ]

Wow, Disney's Technology using Technology.

At the Turtle Talk With Crush exhibit at Disney's California Adventure theme park, Crush the sea turtle makes a cameo like those at the start of most Disney rides. Nothing seems out of the ordinary as the character goes though the script with a cast member, until the Finding Nemo star takes questions from the audience.

"I want to talk to this little dude in the purple shirt," Crush says, "the one up in front, on the left."

Crush is referring to a real guest in the "Human Tank." In a moment he starts answering questions from random children, doing the backstroke on command and guffawing when a girl asks him how he can hold his breath and talk underwater.

Wow, This is great. Add this to Disney's rides like Star Tours, and you can have a fantastic time that would allow a ride or show vary in differences each time you ride it.

Their also testing out Massive Online games for Actual park rides like Buzz Lightyears' Astro Blasters in Anaheim, Ca.

Check out the Whole article at Wired News

Crack the Verifier...

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Base.google.com

It's up, It's down, No Wait its up? What its up again, wait what about the down time.
At the current moment in time (Approximatly, 3:36pm PST) you can get to the login screen of base.google.com. I how ever can not log in using my information. So, I set forth to find out why. So I found this article about it GoogleBlogOScoped. I'm apparently not the only one thats having issues, but the writer was able to do more than I. Thus I am sadden. Read the article, it explains what base.google.com is. but for now heres a lil bit about it.

Examples of items you can find in Google Base:

• • Description of your party planning service
• • Articles on current events from your website
• • Listing of your used car for sale
• • Database of protein structures

[source: GoogleBlogOScoped]

Til next time...

A Fish, A Fish Where a Fish, a Fish, Fish, Robotic Fish

Computer scientists at the University of Essex in the U.K. developed the self-guided robot fish, seen here swimming in the aquarium. The designers say it is the smartest such robot yet created—the fish uses artificial intelligence and built-in sensors to avoid obstacles and respond to environmental changes.

Very life like, Check out the Video for this.
Reuters Video Feed [CLICKY]

Ahh, the fabulous time of a Private Disneyland Party...

Mark and Brian and the KLOS Family along with the California Department of Conservation, Myself and my family say, "THANK YOU For a Great Night!".

The adventure to Disneyland last night was great. Went very well, Had a blast. Rode the all the rides we could in the time we had (9pm to 1am). Most time we waited in a line was for Space Mountain (35 to 40 mins, give or take). Of course had to go to Star Tours, Jessie wasnt big enough to ride it last time. Checked out Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters, Great Fun shoot'em up ride. Karen and the kids caught Pirates of the Caribbean for the first time. Took on the Haunted Mansion Holiday, which was a freakin blast, they converted it to "A Nightmare before Christmas" theme, of which I got a few photos of this with the camera phone. And of course we hit up Mr. Toads Wild ride, Snow White, Peter Pan, Unfortunately we didn't get to Alice, Time was going by really fast. Caught Pinocchio's Daring Journey (note: need to watch this movie again..) Also got on Astro Orbitor, which is located in the entrance to Tomorrow Land. Took the Indiana Jones™ Adventure and got on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. I think that pretty much it, besides the last ride of the night we got on Space Mountain again, then took off home. Got something to eat and got back home about 3am. Great Night! Here are a few photos from my camera phone. I'll have the digital ones for you all later.

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Tonight Disneyland! Tomorrow Work!

Won tickets from 95.5 KLOS to go to Disneyland for free. Well to get in for free at least. Theres still the matter of quenching one's thrist and filling the tummy of edible objects, Oh and thing that I could get outside of Disneyland for half the price, but then again the point of buying it is saying "Hey, I got that at disneyland back in the day." which happened to be on a thursday by the way. We will be bringing the digital camera for Super Happy Picture Time Fun! So I'll post some pic's of the aftermath. Hmm.. Gonna try to get a pic with some of the Characters too. Yea, Good Times will be had by all.

2 Blocks down make a left and Bam. your at 64th and Main.

Somewhere sometime the other day after yesterday, I looked up and said "Hey, Where's my Red Tractor?"

Just thought I would let you know that.

Alllll RRRiiiight!

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Messages from work...

Here are a few voice mail messages from co-workers. This is made me start laughing when he started to sound like Bill Lumbergh from Office Space. VM Ron 01
And today he left me another one. VM Ron 02.

Enjoy some more

I'm Extactic! (and so guy for using that word)

Just received my Recycle Bins from BottlesandCan.com. This is a service that is free of charge and a Win Win situation for both you and the world. Great Stuff.

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Chadsville: Alcohol & calculus don't mix. Never Drink & Derive.

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